Plot Ideas!

During lesson today, we gathered as a group and discussed plot and genre ideas for our horror movie trailer.

We firstly came up with a name and eventually came to the decision that we would call our film 'Silent Night'. This of course refers to the well known Christmas song and also adds a bit of mystery to the actual plot of the film so it leaves the audience guessing as to what type of film it is.

We then began discussing the groups narrative. We have decided to set out the trailer in the form of a story being told to a young child on Christmas eve. We wanted this story to be a scary one being told by an older sibling to a younger one. This is going to be the basis for our killers back story, explaining to the audience what happened and why. In the storyline, the younger sibling is then going to become increasingly scared by this story and begin to believe it is and real and start to see strange things going on around him. The main focus of the story is on this crazed killer who comes out of hiding every Christmas to kill children and is doing so in our trailer, so we will be depicting him killing or hunting down children and will show the young sibling trying to escape.

When thinking about the feel of the film, we decided we wanted it to be quite dark and so took inspiration from director Guillermo del Toro and his film 'Pan's Labyrinth' trailer (which you can watch here). We want to focus however more on the suspense and building of tension rather than the excessive use of gore for our trailer.